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Templater Editions

Subscription Types

Purchase a 1, 3, 6, or 12 month license in an up-front transaction by adding this item to your shopping cart, or choose a yearly or monthly recurring plan. Templater Rig is included with all Pro subscriptions.

Templater Pro Screencasts

Why Use Templater Pro?

Sometimes you need to customize a master comp many times with data you might receive from a producer or client. Templater Pro handles this gracefully and efficiently. Reasons you might need to use Templater Pro in your studio:

Your clients deliver a spreadsheet of customer information, and they require a quick turnaround for many unique videos based on that data.

Your studio has multiple artists who need to work concurrently on different variations of a master composition.

Your studio must deliver many versions of a promo or interstitial slate for network broadcasts.

You have purchased a Templater-compatible AE project and want to create many unique versions of it quickly based on data from a data source.

A single license of any Templater edition allows you to install and / or activate that edition on a single machine for one user. Before purchasing, you should verify that Templater will help your workflow by using it in trial mode. The trial lets you explore Templater Rig, Templater Pro and Templater Bot features with a watermark. After 30 days, all functions cease to work without a purchased license. For an additional fee, a floating license version is also available which works in conjunction with a Linux based license server. To inquire about a floating license version and server please open a support ticket.

Compare Edition Features

See the table below to note which features ship with Templater Pro.

Key Feature

Rig

Pro

Bot

Use a JSON-formatted text file as a data source

Use a Google Sheets document as a data source

Use a Tab-separated value file as a data source

Incorporate web API feeds into a data source

Easily swap out footage sources

Use cloud-based footage references

Apply layout rules to layers

Apply timeline rules to layers

Store batch asset reference presets in project files

Preview compositions with data

Log Templater activity to file

Batch replicate compositions

Batch render compositions

Batch render with Adobe Media Encoder

Custom output naming

Switch AE projects within the data source

Run shell scripts while Templater processes

Command-line interface control

Version AE projects as a background process

Process extremely large data sources

Subscription Pricing

Templater is a professional grade application—the kind that eliminates the worst of the tedium in post-production. Taking user feedback from the original release, we re-engineered our product line-up to accommodate users in any environment, from independent producers needing a single copy of Templater Rig to those working in studios and organizations running Templater Bot on dedicated server farms. What's more, this new model provides better sustainability for continued support and development.

2.7.1 (Current version) - Apr 20, 2018

+ Fixed a bug in Templater's command line interface that required the "suppress_ae_dialogs" property in the templater-options.json to be set to true in order for Templater to initialize. The "suppress_ae_dialogs" property is no longer required in the templater-options.json file.

2.7.0 - Mar 26, 2018

+ New End User License Agreement
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Before installing Templater 2.7, please be sure to read and
agree to the new terms outlined in Templater's End User
License Agreement.

+ Enhanced and robust event architecture
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This much requested and much awaited feature is now
available! You can now register both shell and ExtendScript
scripts to a new set of Templater events. The new Templater
events are as follows

Events are now also broadcast when Previewing in Pro and Bot
editions.

WARNING - READ BEFORE YOU UPDATE TEMPLATER!
If you already make use of event scripts in your application
please note that we have deprecated a preference that might
prevent your application running. As of Templater 2.7 the
preference `For all commands, use job details as arguments`
is deprecated. If using the command line interface, the
`job_detail_args` property found in the `prefs` object within
the `bot` object is also deprecated. It is now required to
explicitly append arguments to your registered shell scripts.
Apologies for any inconvenience.

+ New argument macros for registered event scripts
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A few new argument macros can be passed to event scripts

1. $log : The full path to the templater.log file
2. $log_dir : The full path to the directory containing the
templater.log file
3. $event : A string identifier that references the most
recently broadcast event

+ New ExtendScript API
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ExtendScript files that are registered to listen for a
Templater event you now have access to read and manipulate
Templater's internal memory. Developers can accomplish this
by using the $D object. Full documentation for this API is
available at http://support.dataclay.com

+ Improved naming of downloaded footage assets
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When the `Allow unique downloads for cloud-based assets`
preference is enabled the downloaded asset will have a more
precise identifier prepended to the downloaded file. The
prepend string includes the job's row index value, column or
property name, and ID value if available.

+ Easily troubleshoot Templater operation
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Prevent Templater from suppressing any After Effects notice,
warning, or error dialogs with a new Templater preference.
Note that dialog suppression is on by default.

+ Silence Templater logging
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You can now shut off all Teplater logging from the Templater
Preference dialog. This is not recommended, but useful if you
want to improve speed for batch processes.

+ Improved memory management
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A new preference allows you to choose if Templater should
automatically purge After Effect's internal memory caches
after each job in a batch process. Enable this if you find
that After Effects is eating up too much memory on batch runs.
Note that enabling this preference will add a bit of time to
complete each job in a batch.

+ Open log file directly from Templater Panel
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A new button labeled "Show Log" appears within the Templater
panel. When clicked, Templater will spawn a new terminal
window displaying a real-time log of Templater's operations.

+ Help Tips display in user interface
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When you hover over specific user interface elements in
Templater's main panel and its Preferences dialog, help tips
appear to assist your learning.

2.6.1 - Oct 24, 2017

- Updated installer for CC2018

2.6.0 - Sep 12, 2017

+ Fully Featured 30-day Timed Trials
Users can trial all functions within Templater for 30 days without
any limitation. In trial mode, watermarks are rendered atop layers
that are designated as dynamic. Users can now try out all functions
from all editions of Templater including Rig, Pro, and Bot. After
the trial period, all features in Templater cease to function.

+ Unified Licensing Framework
Licensing framework has been standardized across all Templater
builds. If you are upgrading from Templater 2.5, please read
upgrading instructions in this document first.

+ Templater Events: Bug Fixes and Improved Architecture
Previously, any post-job or post-batch event scripts registered with
Templater's replication feature were not executed properly. This
issue is now fixed making registered post-job and post-batch scripts
execute as documented. Further, the code architecture for event
scripts is prepared for implementing more events types such as:
pre-data, pre-render, pre-replicate, post-data. These will be
implemented in a future release

+ Improved Logging Header
The header in the Templater log files now show more details about
the machine running Templater. It now includes the current
username, the machine ID, and the operating system. This helps
Dataclay's support team troubleshoot customer issues.